"I Am Not Your Cholo"

"I Am Not Your Cholo"

"I Am Not Your Cholo"

By:

Marco Aviles, trans. from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes

Marco Avilés grapples with questions of difference and discrimination for immigrants in Peru and the US in this essay from his book No soy tu cholo, published in Peru by Debate, an imprint of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. An earlier version appeared originally in Ojo Publico.